Example sentences of "[pron] saw [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I saw her through an open doorway .
2 In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) .
3 I saw it as an exciting challenge and a chance to be nearer the business .
4 Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss .
5 Such organizations are usually referred to as bureaucracies and much contemporary analysis is derived from the work of the German sociologist Max Weber , who saw them as an essential element of contemporary capitalism .
6 He was very generous and his friendship was abused by many who saw him as an easy touch financially .
7 A similar point was made by the seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke , who saw it as an insoluble mystery .
8 He saw it as an economic drain and realised its damaging effect on Moscow 's international relations .
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